Discourse and Social Life

Srikant Sarangi, Malcolm Coulthard

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317877066
• Subtopic: Communication Studies
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This collection brings together for the first time in a single volume many of the major figures in contemporary discourse studies. Each chapter is an original contribution which has been specifically commissioned for this book, and together they document the wide range of concerns and techniques which characterise the discipline at the turn of the century.
Discourse and Social Life is concerned with a variety of different types of data - talk, text and interaction - and covers research sites which range from the home setting through the health care setting and the courtroom to the public sphere. The book not only provides a critical, historical overview of different traditions of discourse analysis, but also projects to some extent the possible developments of this field of study, as other allied disciplines (Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Rhetoric and Communication Studies) are taking a discursive turn. Readers are invited to draw parallels between these different approaches to studying discourse in its social context.
The contributors are- Sally Candlin, Malcolm Coulthard, Justine Coupland, Nikolas Coupland, Norman Fairclough, Ruqaiya Hasan, Robert Kaplan, Geoff Leech, Yon Maley, Greg Myers, Celia Roberts, Srikant Sarangi, Ron Scollon, Theo van Leeuwen, Henry Widdowson and Ruth Wodak.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Publisher's Acknowledgements
• Discourse as topic, resource and social practice: An Introduction
• 1 Activity types, discourse types and interactional hybridity: the case of genetic counselling
• 2 The uses of talk
• 3 Same grammar or different grammar? Contrasting approaches to the grammar of spoken English discourse
• 4 The construction of purpose in discourse
• 5 Contrastive rhetoric and discourse analysis: Who writes what to whom? When? In what circumstances?
• 6 Professional gatekeeping in intercultural encounters
• 7 Becoming a group: face and sociability in moderated discussions
• 8 Methodological interdiscursivity: an ethnographic understanding of unfinalisability
• 9 Critical practices: on representation and the interpretation of text
• 10 Dialogue in the public sphere
• 11 Recontextualization and the transformation of meanings: a critical discourse analysis of decision making in EU meetings about employment policies
• 12 Relational frames and pronominal address/reference: the discourse of geriatric medical triads
• 13 New dynamics in the nurse-patient relationship?
• 14 The case of the long-nosed potoroo: the framing and construction of expert witness testimony
• 15 Whose text is it? On the linguistic investigation of authorship
• Index